Book description
Ruth Padel's passionate and daring new collection is a woman's eye view
of a love affair. Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence
and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the
exaltation of deep love and sexual happiness, Padel's extraordinarily
bold and intimate book explores the complexity of emotions that go with
falling in love. Wonderfully versatile in tone, it blends the lyrical
and the colloquial, darkness and light, seriousness and wit, myth and
the Spice Girls. It includes the poem that won the 1996 National Poetry
Competition 'Icicles round a tree in Dumfriesshire'.
